Education Minister Botcha Satyanarayana on October 20 said the purpose of implementing the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum in all the 45,000 government-run schools across Andhra Pradesh was to provide students of all sections equal access to education of international standards.
Addressing the media at the Samagra Shiksha office, Mr. Satyanarayana said that the State would spend only ₹149 crore to bring IB within the reach of the students in a span of five years.
Unlike in other States, where the IB syllabus was implemented in only select schools, Andhra Pradesh schools would first set up IB labs before collectively implementing the curriculum, he said, informing that an organisation had come forward to train the students free of cost.
